Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Santa Fe ** (1951, Randolph Scott, Janis Carter, Jerome Courtland, Peter M Thompson, John Archer, Roy Roberts, Warner Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 6703

Director Irving Pichel’s 1951 Columbia Technicolor Western stars Randolph Scott as Britt Canfield, who leads his three younger brothers out West in search of adventure in this run-of-the-mill fighting-family Western. The trio of brothers, Terry, Tom and Clint […]

Feb, 17 · in Reviews

Diane ** (1956, Lana Turner, Pedro Armendáriz, Roger Moore, Cedric Hardwicke, Henry Daniell, Marisa Pavan, Torin Thatcher, Taina Elg) – Classic Movie Review 6702

Christopher Isherwood, the esteemed British author of Goodbye to Berlin, had a bumpy ride as a screenwriter in Hollywood, though he was very thankful for it because it paid many of his bills. Director David […]

Feb, 17 · in Reviews

Homecoming ** (1948, Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Anne Baxter, John Hodiak, Ray Collins, Gladys Cooper, Cameron Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 6,701

The watchable 1948 wartime romantic film Homecoming finds ideally paired MGM superstars Clark Gable and Lana Turner in unusual roles for them in their third movie together. Director Mervyn LeRoy’s trite 1948 wartime romance film […]

Feb, 17

Somewhere I’ll Find You ** (1942, Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Robert Sterling, Patricia Dane, Reginald Owen, Lee Patrick, Charles Dingle) – Classic Movie Review 6700

Director Wesley Ruggles 1942 wartime romantic drama is the second of the four popular pairings of Clark Gable and Lana Turner at MGM, following Honky Tonk (1941) and followed by Homecoming (1948) and Betrayed (1954). Gable and Robert […]

Feb, 16

Honky Tonk *** (1941, Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Frank Morgan, Claire Trevor, Marjorie Main, Albert Dekker, Henry O’Neill, Chill Wills) – Classic Movie Review 6699

MGM’s pleasant 1941 hit comedy Western film Honky Tonk teams Clark Gable as smooth-talking gambler-conman ‘Candy’ Johnson and Lana Turner as cute good girl Liz Cotton.  Director Jack Conway’s pleasant, rambling 1941 MGM comedy Western […]

Feb, 16

Bitter Victory **** (1957, Richard Burton, Curd Jürgens, Ruth Roman) – Classic Movie Review 6698

Curd Jürgens stars as Major David Brand, a jittery, cowardly leader awarded a medal he did not merit for leading a British commando raid on Rommel’s desert fortress headquarters, and Burton as his number two, Captain Jimmy Leith, an […]

Feb, 16

Three Coins in the Fountain *** (1954, Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan, Maggie McNamara, Rossano Brazzi) – Classic Movie Review 6697

Director Jean Negulesco knows how to make this double Oscar-winning 1954 romantic drama sweet and sentimental, and that is fine, but fortunately Clifton Webb and Dorothy McGuire are also able to inject a bit of […]

Feb, 16

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